Example sentences of "are [verb] up of " in BNC.

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1 Maybe they are fed up of being seen as this natural type of band .
2 He refuses to accept that the voters are fed up of electioneering in Langbaurgh .
3 ‘ We have asked year after year and quite honestly we are fed up of being ignored , ’ she said , claiming Darlington health authority was the only one in the area which has no such post .
4 ‘ People are fed up of the mayhem and death wreaked by young criminals .
5 Another new age traveller , who declined to be named , added : ‘ We are fed up of police harassment .
6 Usually such organisations are built up of a multiplicity of smaller gangs .
7 Our Home Care teams are made up of doctors and nurses backed by a network of trained and active volunteers .
8 Apple trees are made up of two parts , the fruiting variety and the rootstock .
9 Muscles are made up of fibres which have different mechanical properties , and two of the main groups of fibres are called fast twitch fibres and slow twitch fibres .
10 The stomach muscles are made up of several muscle groups , the most important being the rectus abdominis and the external oblique .
11 It also reveals that 18.9 per cent of households , 434 in all , are made up of people who have retired to the Dales and of these some 54 per cent previously lived outside Yorkshire .
12 Class 1 NI are made up of the employer 's share , which you pay , and the employee 's share , which you can deduct from your employee 's pay .
13 Most hunts are made up of a complete cross-section of society , the only qualification being an ability to ride .
14 Composed of sympathisers , spies and informers of the regime , the Battalions are made up of men , mostly in their late teens and 20s , who cruised the streets of Panama City in trucks and open Jeeps , armed with clubs , rubber truncheons ( akin to South African sjamboks ) , knives and hand-guns .
15 Britain 's invisible earnings , which are made up of a surplus on things like insurance and banking offset by government contributions to the European Community and overseas aid , are now projected to be about £2,670million in 1989 , less than half the £6,100million total earned in 1988 .
16 In March 1970 Saddam Hussein ( the Iraqi regime 's strong man , but not yet president ) negotiated a deal with the late Mullah Mustafa Barzani that stated : ‘ The people of Iraq are made up of two principal nationalities , the Arab nationality and the Kurdish nationality . ’
17 Further analysis of the above five steps could be conducted ( for instance , it is worth noting that they are made up of ( I ) non-drama — 1 ( 2 ) nun-drama — 1 ( 3 ) drama — 1 ( 4 ) non-drama — 1 ( 5 ) drama activities ) but it is not in the matter of graded steps within a sequence that drama resembles a game : the game element of drama is inherent within each stop .
18 However , our foods are made up of three major components which provide energy : carbohydrates , fats and proteins .
19 Some of the most modern industrial companies in Latin America are family businesses , whose boards of directors are made up of relatives and close friends who can be trusted .
20 The implication here is that these workers have rejected the dominant values of society and are made up of criminals , prostitutes , drug-addicts and other drop-outs ( Lloyd 1982 ) .
21 Too often headteacher 's reports are made up of the dry dust of lists of attendance figures , class visits , building repairs , pupil numbers and details of resignations and appointments .
22 They are made up of chopped leaves and grass cuttings .
23 Fats are made up of units called fatty acids — saturated , mono-unsaturated along with polyunsaturated fatty acids .
24 Animals are made up of specialized cells , such as blood cells , cartilage cells , fat cells , muscle cells , nerve cells — humans have about 350 different cell types while lower animals , like hydra , only 10 to 20 .
25 They are made up of four triangular sides , and are splendid tetrahedra . )
26 This chapter will be concerned with the most straightforward kinds of pyroclastic deposits : those which are made up of fragments which have simply been shot up into the air and fallen back down again , so they are known as pyroclastic fall deposits .
27 The first of those facts is that animals and humans are made up of almost identical bits and pieces .
28 These are made up of a core of non-polar lipids ( triglyceride and cholesterol esters ) with polar lipids ( phospholipids , free cholesterol and apoproteins ) located on the outer part of the macromolecules ( Galton , et al , 1982 ) .
29 Interactionists would question that implication , and argue that they are made up of a plurality of values and norms , which may often conflict .
30 All living things are made up of chemicals — chemicals and water and nothing else .
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